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Abraham Lincoln1809–1865

You say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Abraham Lincoln on change

The Cooper Union Address (1860)

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